I received this e-mail letter from a satisified customer today. I have to say I was touched. I hope my kids remember me this fondly.
Smoking Turkey in the Rain
Robb-
I am not a Texan but I love BBQ. I live in the Pacific NW (Olympia, WA to be exact). It rains a [...]

Barbacoa means barbecue in Mexican Spanish. In Mexico City you find seasoned lamb sealed in maguey leaves cooked in the coals of a fire. In Texas, cow heads became the most popular meat for barbacoa because the ranch hands were given cow heads as part of their pay. If you ever saw the movie Giant, [...]

I made my first wild duck gumbo a couple of years ago after going duck hunting with my brothers. Four of us shot eleven ducks near Aransas Pass on our way down to South Padre for Thanksgiving. The Walsh family is a large clan and around 20 of us had gathered in a condo complex [...]

Watch for more information about this Texas foodways group in the making.

In their year end round-up, Sex, Death & Oysters was named one of the top food books of 2009 by the Eat Me Daily blog
Best Food Adventure
Sex, Death, and Oysters by Robb Walsh
Walsh, a Houston-based food writer, goes on an oyster adventure, eating the bivalves on two continents. The book would be too sodden with [...]

Here’s Part One of my recipe for Wild Duck Gumbo:
First shoot yourself some ducks.

Cut open a bag of Fritos corn chips, ladle some hot Velveeta over top, add a scoop of chili con carne, some raw onions and chopped jalapeños. Voila!

I’ll be talking about the FDA summer oyster ban, oyster reef rebuilding after Hurricane Ike and reading from Sex, Death & Oysters this Sunday, November 1 at 12:30 pm at the Texas Book Festival in Austin. Come say hello.

From the Houston Press “Eating Our Words” blog:
This is not your average, everyday barbecue sandwich.
I’m saying the Bohemian Special at Mustang Creek B-B-Q on Highway 59 in Louise is the best barbecue sandwich in Texas. It excels by virtue of architecture alone–a mound of sliced brisket is topped with lengthwise slices of smoked Prasek’s [...]

August is suck-it-up time in Texas. It’s close to 100° day after day. For a break, I decided to do a feature about ice cream in the Houston Press. This gave me an excuse to tour the Blue Bell ice cream factory–a very cool place!